Copyright laws threaten our online freedom


by Christian Engstrom
Pirate party member of the European parliament

Global Research, July 11, 2009
The Financial Times - 2009-07-07


If you search for Elvis Presley in Wikipedia, you will find a lot of text and a few pictures that have been cleared for distribution. But you will find no music and no film clips, due to copyright restrictions. What we think of as our common cultural heritage is not “oursâ€